like 1975,
65 Galaxie 500 390/4bbl 4 sped, maroon color/bench seat cloth interior, what a POS
but got it for $150, from a classmate's mom, had delusions of grandeur
it was too far gone, too much wrong with it, worn out...
I did a few things & flipped it, for like $350 IIRC
to pay for a trans rebuild/buddies father owns a trans shop,
bought a deep B&M alum pan & a Holeshot converter (?)
for my 68 Charger
1974 July 11th, $350, day before I turned 15 & got my learners permit,
a GG1 & Black 1968 Charger R/T 440 727tf 3.55:1 gears
from the separated wife of the CCC Sheriff, Guy H., drove the car some
it had about 79k miles in 8 years, black interior A/C & lights package
bucket seat console car, had it for a long time several different engine combos
1st thing I did was put Cragers on it 14"x8" front with Pro-trac 60's & 14x10" rears with 50's
car had steel wheels &
full grandpa hubcaps, wasn't having any of that stuff
started out with the OE engine, bought a Norris .477"/298* hft, rowdy sounding cam
with 1.6 Crane ductile iron adj. rockers, did the points to electronic swap
Torker or Tarantula (?) intake, DC performance Water pump/alum housing,
1-7/8" w/3-1/2" coll. long tube Heddman Hedders,
I kept & used the org. 2-1/4" factory H-pipe exhaust & turbo mufflers
so it wouldn't be too loud
had a bunch of gear plugs from 3.55-5.38s, like 9 of them,
given to me by an old MoPar guy
Bill Stammerjohn who was a great head porter, cool MoPar guy, Sacramento area engine builder,
schooled me/taught me a lot about doing ported 906 heads, w/bigger intakes valves
he'd clean them up after I did the rough out
for such a small cam that thing ran great, like 12.90's @ like a 107 in street trim
then had a 513cid Stroker RB, way before strokers were popular,
expensive offset ground crank (BBC rod size) & rods
I used some forged 'obscure' Ford flattop pistons, like .040" (?) over
& for the correct comp. height, machinist turned the rods into full floating,
It actually worked out well, weren't a lot of great places to get custom pistons,
on a $6.15hr pay, beat a lot of hi-$$$ builds with it, in a 3,800# car
and latter built a 6.71:1 blown/2x4bbl motor, big mushroom SFT camshaft,
Crane rockers, same 513/bottom end
most the local cops hated me & I lived on a street where most all the cops lived,
I was known as heartless Bart
I'd fire my car up like 5:30am to go to work at the PG&E powerplants, in Pittsburg or Antioch
You know, had to rap the throttle several times when it was cold,
even with an electric choke
I had even a lil' over cammed, Holley carb'd, alum 4 bbl 340 intake, headers, better fuel pump
over geared (5.13:1) a lowly 318/LA 1968/temporarily while building a Blown Stroker motor
& that lil' 318 beat many a BB cars with it
Loved that car, sold it to a cousin, as a roller with a non running 440/727tf
& he totaled it in 2 weeks time, I regret that to this day
I bough a lot of Camaros, 442s, GSs, Chevelles, GTO & gen 1 Firebirds
& Chargers or RRs, GM stuff went for crazy $$ in comparison
they just found me,
I had 12 Charger R/Ts 1968-70
& I'm now working on my 13th RR (1968-70)
most were in the range of $500-$1,500, until about 1997-2000's then it was $6k-$10k or more
for a decent Calif. car, now forget it, can't find a 1968-70 rust-bucket
for less than like $20k, & it needs $50k worth of work, at a min....
